Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-02-13 | Page 37 | World Decay Forecast by Savant

WORLD DECAY FORECAST BY SAVAllT Austrian Professor Says the Globe Will Be Peopled Only by Apes - II y L niversa I Krvior. PAKieS. Feb. 12. Man is not only fK.-ccuded from monkeys, but monkeys n rc descended from a race of prehis-trit: prehis-trit: men who, from being overe'vi-lized, overe'vi-lized, finally sank into barbarism and aj0 frnm thence into savagery, eventually y f houiinp monkeys again. Tli world is now in the second stance of human evolution and, unless "false uiturr" in ttsetdft xnd ." normal : )f ;ts..ort itsfli' over the modern teu-dencies teu-dencies toward destruction.' the earth In an fit h'r 2000 years will be asa'n Ji.opUd solely by monkevs. Thp.se are the extraordinary utate-Tii"nts utate-Tii"nts made bv Professor A. Ijlncke-wiez Ijlncke-wiez of Vienna, in a book entitled 'Th.: it cant in Man," a commentary ridiculing', which appears in the current cur-rent ine-ue of Kevue Ulernlre Ues Arts et Sciences published at Paris, Uinckewiez is the 85 -year-old A us-trinn us-trinn blolos:ist who In a work published in 1904 foretold that the twentieth cen-tury cen-tury would ho one of almost continuous contin-uous war. He repeats this assertion In his nw hook and accuses the various t peace treat) of containing the germs of 101 poHHible wars, including: Th- I'nlteM Statss of Kurope versus th L'n'ted states of Asia. The fnit.'d frtates and Australis Versus Japan. France versus Oreks and Italy. Knpland versus the United State. Kxplainine his 'pre-J.arwtnlan" the-nrv. the-nrv. tin; aired Austrian professor claims 1 hat archaeological discoveries in 'hi nil. Kgynt. I;u.sia. Italy and else-m else-m here prove- conclusively that a civilization civ-ilization ohier than the Atlantic ocenn isted whrn what is now the United States was a tsea. I'ROH rHIHKVAfi APFX "Th human race whidi inhabited the f.irth at that time." he says, "was Hie rf.xutt of fifty centuries of evolution evolu-tion from the primeval ape and wa f;r more highly developed than Is the -i vilization of today, although along different lines. "At th.it t;ige. for instance, telephone tele-phone had been replaced by telepathy and ft was possible for a business man in China to send an order to an sgent , in Koandinavln by simply concentrating concentrat-ing the processes of his thought on 'h. subject and transporting his mind for t he moment to the other end of llip farth, 1 "This faculty is at present retained only hr a small group of -HJndu.phi-lonnp"hers In India who have been re-Tnarkably re-Tnarkably successful in thought trans-, f.TPtic "and in other directions, such; the. ability to simulate death for a period as long as seventy years, after whi'h they emerge with a completely n r w brain w h e reo n are re reived i m - presisons such as the brain of a year-old year-old child would receive. These men ;i re then practically reborn and often live a normal lifetime thereafter. They cannot, however, repeat the experiment. experi-ment. "The prfcivilrr.ed were In regular lommunicution with certain of the wlars but it is not possible to say with which, although the Grecian legends leg-ends surrounding planetary gods are undoubtedly founded on legends which have survived In the form of graven scriptures from the first touman or fi r-cT preape period. "Finally this race became superhuman super-human and the limit of their brain rapacitv having been overreached thoir intelligence suddenly snapped. There is lUtto reason to believe that they V, erf Ftceped in debauchery and hp-cam hp-cam nfnprocretive, so that when the final disaster came about their numbers num-bers were reduced to a few million, residing for th most part in' the warmed climes. TtlXtMK MURjKKYft AG A I. "Followed sin or seven centuries, when the world was peopled by half- )iw who desiroved the cities thev had built, pulled down the mighty clvilir.n-t clvilir.n-t .oh t heir forefathers had raised, en-g:Ked en-g:Ked in bloods- wars amongst them- ivcn nml fnnv teciiri gain what ihey had been in the beginning a rac of monkeys. "To prove the truth of this It is nec-swirv only to take a new-born in-f.tnt in-f.tnt and place it amonr monkeys for its firyt fifteen years. By that time it w ill have absorbei all the habits of apeg and will be only half human. It ill never have learned the power of speech except in so far as it will chatter chat-ter like a monkey. It will not be as agile as a monkey because it will have n tail, but should it he mater to an app its children will be wholly apes. "A monkey, therefore, is a human ; Idiot degraded by centuries of lnsmn- X ity." IVofessor Tinckew!e then asserts T that during the. twentieth century the J world has advanced a hundred ren- i turies toward beast iafltv and will 4 within 2"00 years be peopled again by aps." False culture, says the diet 'nguished ; biologican, is reHponaible for the ills' of society at tbe present day. Tul- I turc." tic asferts. "is a cancer eating info the fle!h. of humanity." tn another century the telephone, the telegraph, the submarine, the airplane and the automobile will be relics of the pat. and the world will have become n intensely modern that, like an overripe over-ripe apple, it will begin to decay. "Then will follow the reversion to type or the descent to barbarism." As' a remedy. the Vienna, writer tirtres the abolition of religion, money and svstem of government whereby If is in the power of a few men to con-d.mn con-d.mn to death by starvation millions."!